Table of Content
List of Illustrations Introduction The Text of Frankenstein map: Geneva and Its Environs Title page (1818) Dedication (1818) Preface Frankenstein Contexts CIRCUMSTANCE, INFLUENCE, COMPOSITION, REVISION Mary Shelley * Introduction to Frankenstein, Third Edition (1831) John William Polidori * Letter Prefaced to The Vampyre (1819) M. K. Joseph * The Composition of Frankenstein Chris Baldick * [Assembling Frankenstein] Richard Holmes * [Mary Shelley and the Power of Contemporary Science] Christa Knellwolf and Jane Goodall * [The Significance of Place: Ingolstadt] Charles E. Robinson * Texts in Search of an Editor: Reflections on The Frankenstein Notebooks and on Editorial Authority Anne K. Mellor * Choosing a Text of Frankenstein to Teach RECEPTION, IMPACT, ADAPTATION Percy Bysshe Shelley * On Frankenstein [John Croker] * From the Quarterly Review (January 1818) Sir Walter Scott * From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (March 1818) Edinburgh Magazine * [On Frankenstein] (March 1818) Gentleman's Magazine * [On Frankenstein] (April 1818) Knight's Quarterly * [On Frankenstein] (August-November 1824) Hugh Reginald Haweis * Introduction to the Routledge World Library Edition (1886) Chris Baldick * [The Reception of Frankenstein] William St. Clair * [Frankenstein's Impact] Susan Tyler Hitchcock * [The Monster Lives On] Elizabeth Young * [Frankenstein as Historical Metaphor] David Pirie * Approaches to Frankenstein [in Film] SOURCES, INFLUENCES, ANALOGUES The Book of Genesis * [Biblical Account of Creation] John Milton * From Paradise Lost Percy Bysshe Shelley * Mont Blanc (1816) [The Sea of Ice] (1817) Mutability George Gordon, Lord Byron * Prometheus Darkness From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto III (1816) Charles Lamb * The Old Familiar Faces Criticism George Levine * Frankenstein and the Tradition of Realism Ellen Moers * Female Gothic: The Monster's Mother Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar * Mary Shelley's Monstrous Eve Mary Poovey * "My Hideous Progeny": The Lady and the Monster Anne K. Mellor * Possessing Nature: The Female in Frankenstein Peter Brooks * What Is a Monster? (According to Frankenstein) Bette London * Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, and the Spectacle of Masculinity Marilyn Butler * Frankenstein and Radical Science Lawrence Lipking * Frankenstein, the True Story; or, Rousseau Judges Jean-Jacques Garrett Stewart * In the Absence of Audience: Of Reading and Dread in Mary Shelley James A. W. Heffernan * Looking at the Monster: Frankenstein and Film Patrick Brantlinger * The Reading Monster Jonathan Bate * [Frankenstein and the State of Nature] Anne K. Mellor * Frankenstein, Racial Science, and the Yellow Peril Jane Goodall * Electrical Romanticism Christa Knellwolf * Geographic Boundaries and Inner Space: Frankenstein, Scientific Exploration, and the Quest for the Absolute Mary Shelley: A Chronology Selected Bibliography
